Former ‘Doctor Who’ Peter Davison wants make an album.
The 67-year-old actor has revealed that before getting into acting and landing his breakout role in 1978 BBC veterinary drama ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, Davison had hoped to make his living as a songwriter but then he became the Fifth Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series in 1981 and his musical ambitions had to go on the "back-burner" as he became a major star of the small screen.
Davison is still picking up regular TV roles as he approaches his 70th birthday but he is still writing songs and he is determined to join the list of actors who have made albums in recent years before it is too late.
Speaking on the ‘In Conversation with Matthew Sweet’ documentary from upcoming DVD & Blu Ray release ‘Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 19’, he said: "The truth is I carried on writing songs for many years and I still do from time-to-time, acting always got in the way. It was one of those things that was on the back-burner and if acting gave me up then I would go back to songwriting and dig out these songs and see if I could sell them. I had a music publisher and I had a couple of songs recorded. I still haven’t given up on the idea of producing an album, because people might think I’m talking nonsense when I say I’ve written all these songs so part of me wants to prove it was true."
Davison only writes and plays his own music so when he does make his album it will be a record of totally original material unlike the efforts of his acting peers, like Alexander Armstrong and Bradley Walsh, who have made records packed with covers.
He added: "It will be my own songs or nothing, I’m not going to do an Alexander Armstrong! Tragically in this obsession with writing my own songs, in the late 60s and early 70s I never learnt anybody else’s songs. I was useless at those parties when people would hand me a guitar and say play a Beatles song or play this, I couldn’t play any of them I never learnt them."
Peter Davison wants to make an album
